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061: AI Isn’t Replacing You, But It Is Replacing The Way You Work

26 May 2026 17:09 Lucy Shrimpton

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This episode is not the AI conversation you’ve heard before.

It’s not about whether AI will take your job. It’s not a cheerleading session or a warning to stay away. It’s about a specific, very common mistake that business owners are making with AI right now that’s quietly eroding something they’ve worked years to build.

Every day I’m seeing content that reeks of AI. Sophisticated, polished, well-structured content that has completely lost the human behind it. And the reputational cost of that is real, gradual and often invisible until significant damage has already been done.

In this episode I talk about the three camps most business owners fall into right now and which one is actually the most dangerous, what’s really happening when your audience detects AI-written content even before they consciously identify it, why using an untrained LLM is the same as asking a stranger to write your diary, and what genuine human-plus-AI integration actually looks like in practice.

I also share an observation from something I saw this week that I think will land for a lot of you.

This is the honest conversation about AI that I think more people need to be having.

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